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Fisher - Test
Contributed by: Newman
  • 1. In which year was R.A. Fisher born?
A) 1890
B) 1875
C) 1925
D) 1900
  • 2. Where was R.A. Fisher born?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) London, England
C) New York, USA
D) Paris, France
  • 3. Which statistical method did Fisher develop to estimate population parameters from a sample?
A) Maximum Likelihood Estimation
B) ANOVA
C) Principal Component Analysis
D) Linear Regression
  • 4. Which statistical concept did Fisher introduce that measures the amount of evidence against a null hypothesis?
A) Effect Size
B) Confidence Interval
C) Standard Error
D) P-Value
  • 5. What was the title of Fisher's last book on statistics, published posthumously in 1956?
A) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
B) Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research
C) Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference
D) The Theory of the Design of Experiments
  • 6. Which statistical concept describes the extent to which observed data deviates from what is expected under a given model?
A) Outliers
B) Residuals
C) Confounding
D) Bias
  • 7. What is the name of Fisher's fundamental book on statistics?
A) Statistical Inference
B) Bayesian Data Analysis
C) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
D) The Design of Experiments
  • 8. What was the title of the series of eleven Eugenics pamphlets authored by Fisher?
A) The Design of Experiments
B) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
C) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
D) Foundations of Statistical Inference
  • 9. Which statistical test did Fisher develop that is widely used in experimental biology?
A) Chi-Square Test
B) T-Test
C) Mann–Whitney U Test
D) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
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